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Object-specific Layout Update Handles

21st MAY 2013 | Posted by Zvonimir Buric in Events & Observers, Extensions, Frontend, Magento, Programming, Tips

Every HTTP request in Magento results with a few layout handles which can be used to customize layout of desired pages. If you ever tried to dump layout handles in Magento, …

Newsletter auto-subscribe on create account and place order in Magento

20th MAY 2013 | Posted by Marko Martinovic in Events & Observers, Extensions, Magento, Programming

By default Magento provides a Newsletter feature, which enables store administrators to send newsletters to customers who have registered to receive them. Since most customers tend not to opt-in to …

Product Stock Alerts (not) working

26th APR 2013 | Posted by Ivan Galambos in Debugging, E-Commerce, Email, Events & Observers, Magento, Products, Programming

Recently one of our clients had contacted us and said that ProductAlert functionality doesn’t work any more. After I investigated the situation I saw that last email regarding to Stock …

Magento Event Driven Programming Tips & Tricks

17th APR 2013 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Events & Observers, Magento

One of the cool things about Magento from the application architectural point of view is its support for the event driven programming. That is, event – observer system. The whole …

Choosing a right event to observe

15th OCT 2012 | Posted by Zvonimir Buric in Debugging, Events & Observers, Magento, Programming, Starting up, Tips

When you develop your Magento module or any kind of modification by observing events, it is very important to choose proper events to observe. One method is to search Magento …

Custom Magento Events: Customer First Order

28th JAN 2012 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Events & Observers, Magento

Often you will stumble upon a case where Magento lacks certain events that you can easily observe. Various business cases can sometimes truly stretch the boundaries of even the best …

Edit PDF address in Magento

4th NOV 2011 | Posted by Goran Sambolic in Events & Observers, Magento

Editing PDF in Magento can be restrictive but if you need to edit just an address you can use events.

There’s no “EMPTY CART” on Magento’s cart page

22nd MAR 2011 | Posted by Mladen Lotar in Checkout, Events & Observers, Extensions, Frontend, Integration, Magento, Programming

Or at least, hasn’t been there yet. Recently I had to do one too many cart tests, and one of most annoying things was when I had to empty it, …

Adding extra security to the Magento’s admin “Forgot your password?”

12th JAN 2011 | Posted by Branko Ajzele in Events & Observers, Extensions, Magento

For those of you interested in adding a little extra security to your Magento’s admin “Forgot your password?” feature, you might find this module useful. The thing about current Magento …

Dispatching before and after events to Magento core actions

22nd NOV 2010 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Events & Observers, Magento, MVC

As we all probably know, there are some events in Magento that are dispatched by default. We can easily hook on those events, but this is not a subject of …

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